About the Authors

Omry Koren

Contributed equally to this work with: Omry Koren, Dan Knights, Antonio Gonzalez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Dan Knights

Contributed equally to this work with: Omry Koren, Dan Knights, Antonio Gonzalez

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Antonio Gonzalez

Contributed equally to this work with: Omry Koren, Dan Knights, Antonio Gonzalez

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Levi Waldron

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicola Segata

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rob Knight

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Curtis Huttenhower

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ruth E. Ley

rel222@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OK DK AG LW NS RK CH REL. Performed the experiments: OK DK AG LW NS RK CH REL. Analyzed the data: OK DK AG LW NS RK CH REL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OK DK AG LW NS RK CH REL. Wrote the paper: OK DK AG NS RK CH REL.